Over the course of the past month, the Junior Fair Board (JFB) members have collected more than 600 pairs of jeans that will be going to local children in need. They partnered with the DoSomething’s nationwide Teens For Jeans: Make a Difference project, encouraging members of their community to participate too. Good job guys! For additional…
Event Industry News: Fashion = art museum
July 29, 2013
Image courtesy of criminalatt at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Fashion = art museum: Fashion label Guess is known for its jeans. And now for its art. The brains behind the brand–Maurice and Paul Marciano, plan to renovate the vacant Scottish Rite Masonic Temple on Wilshire Ave. and transform it into a mecca of contemporary art. The temple was…
Cheers: Drinking for a good cause
June 26, 2013
What does career and child development have in common with wine tasting and dancing the night away? In our case, everything. On Saturday night the Wine & Spirits Marketplace opened its doors to the public for an evening of eating, drinking and being merry. Appropriately named Cheers – L.A.’s Wine, Spirits, Beer & Food Festival, the…
L.A. Weekender: Happy Summer Solstice!
June 21, 2013
We have a lot going on at Fairplex right now. In just a few hours, Vans Warped Tour will be kicking off their second day of concerts. It’s just the beginning of a weekend long celebration of the longest day of the year! We hope you’re ready to celebrate because there is too much happening…
Brace Yourselves. Summer is Coming.
June 6, 2013
memegenerator.net All Game of Thrones memes aside, our warmest season is upon us. School books are shut, windows are open and summer is well on its way. (Some would argue its already here, but according to science, the official start of summer is June 21. So.) It doesn’t quite feel like summer to us until…
Event Industry News: Eventstagram, CicLAvia, Stagecoach and the Lemon Festival
April 29, 2013
…And we’re live: Eventstagram, a live Instagram feed for events (think Tweetdeck for Instagram) has officially been adopted into the Wayra family. What does this mean for the rest of the event world? It means that Evenstagram (less than a year old) could soon be the answer to engaging event guests and aggregating live visual…
Fairplex at the moment
March 6, 2013
So Cal College Fair is happening over at the Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center right now. Hundreds of high school students piled out of school buses this morning and into the conference center, welcomed by dozens of colleges, trade schools and other career representatives. After talking to college representatives, students went into college preparatory seminars including…
Help out our “kids”
July 25, 2011
The Learning Centers at Fairplex cordially invite you…to dinner! With an accompanying auction on September 29 at our very own Sheraton Fairplex Hotel, the Child Development Center at Fairplex 20th Annual Dinner & Auction hopes to raise money to continue its mission of educating and preparing today’s children, their families and tomorrow’s teachers to succeed…
This is for all you beer lovers out there…
March 9, 2010
April 16th will be a good day for beer lovers in Southern California where they can taste over 150 imported and micro brews plus a delectable selection of finger foods for only $35. All proceeds benefit the Fairplex Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC) . There’s no better way to have fun and help your…
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